“For 20 years, the Fondation d'entreprise Ricard Prize has been supporting
and helping build the French art scene in its structures, hierarchies, methods
and forms. Year after year, it legitimizes the practices of artists, curators
and institutions, while establishing melodic contrasts when it invites artists
to do curation and curators to do art.
Although, more broadly, the...

For the past years, Fabien Giraud and Raphaël Siboni have been working on a protean opus recounting in reverse a history of technology. This exhibition takes shape at the crossroads between the three cycles of works that compose it, reflecting on the recently completed first season The Unmanned, a history of computation in eight films, and prefiguring the trajectories of further seasons, which...

Tarik Kiswanson’s artistic practice—which encompasses sculpture, performance, and poetry— evinces an engagement with the poetics of métissage: a means of writing and surviving between multiple conditions and contexts. This crossroad, as cultural studies scholar Paul Gilroy writes, “is a special location where unforeseen, magical things can happen.” The reduction, refraction, multiplication and...

At first sight, Maurice Blaussyld and Samuel Richardot
are such different artists that it is hard to understand what unites them. Let
us say straight off: they both have a relationship with silence. Blaussyld’s is
hieratic, while Richardot’s is colorful. When the Fondation d’entreprise Ricard
asked me to bring them together in an exhibition, I imagined this Duographie as
the meeting of...

On the occasion
of the 19th Fondation d’entreprise Ricard Prize, the exhibition Les Bons Sentiments brings together the
six nominated artists: Deborah Bowmann, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Lola Gonzàlez,
Thomas Jeppe, Caroline Mesquita and Zin Taylor. For this
temporary cohabitation, each of them has been invited to show a set of works
that generously displays the commitments and...

Everything started at the beginning of the 2000s through an accumulation process and an empirical practice in the studio, and yet for Tursic and Mille, doing is primarily a matter of thinking, defining how they produce and think in painting. In reference to the lecture that concluded Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s 1960-61 course at Collège de France, the artists define this as a...

Nothing Belongs to Us: Offer begins with a feeling. A tugging between the awareness of a reality asking to be clarified, and the wish that a work would always stay partly in the shadows. In the shadows half lit bodies escape meaning and draw us in. They call out to be understood, but at the same time their approach is uncertain and promises no predetermined end. Along this path there is the...

Caroline Mesquita’s sculptural practice intertwines the materiality of her altered, oxidized, and painted copper and brass sheets with theatrical playfulness. Her metallurgic experiments result in life-size figures, interacting with each other in a mise en scène crafted from the sculpted sheets and forming an environment of coated steel. For the exhibition The Ballad, presented at Fondation...

The Fondation d’entreprise Ricard is pleased to present Laurent Montaron’s Dioramas exhibition.This show features brand new works, showcasing the artist’s creative diversity. His films, photographs, objects and installations convey how the way we represent space and time has changed, in line with the history of technology. Referencing sound and image reproduction and broadcast technologies...

The Fondation d'entreprise Ricard will present its eighteenth annual prize this coming autumn, curated by Isabelle Cornaro.The prize exhibition, featuring works by eight artists displayed in the Foundation's own premises and the adjoining cinema, highlights not only the diversity of artistic practices on the modern art scene but above all the prevalence of contemporary iconography drawing on...

A series of gesturesSophie Bueno-Boutellier is a painter and sculptor. Her installations combine ready-made objects with elements made from humble materials readily available in DIY shops. Her preferred medium is plaster, for its ease of use and its ability to create an instant, accurate reproduction of any shape and to soak up pigments. The shapes she creates are often cylinders and...

The Fondation d’entreprise Ricard is pleased to present the exhibition of Dove Allouche.Curated by Kate Macfarlane.Dove Allouche’s new body of work is informed by his interest in parietal art, an extension of his fascination with earth’s primordial elements. Using fugitive materials and processes associated with both drawing and photography, Allouche produces artworks that capture the...

Fertile Lands calls for favorable grounds, whose contact could help the art of today find the means to regenerate itself. The works in the exhibition at the Fondation d’entreprise Ricard summon the raw forces of nature. They capture the sun's energy that "touches" Cyprien Gaillard's fossil-objects (What it Does to Your City), or the solarized paper held out in Sophie Bonnet-Pourpet’s...

The characters that Sarah Tritz has
summoned to the Fondation d’entreprise Ricard – such as the melancholic Diabolo, after whom the exhibition is
named, and the delightful Sluggo,
both of whom are taken directly from an American comic from the 1930s, from
where the artist also borrowed the delicate sky-blue and water-green colours
that decorate the walls of the space – bring in...

The 2015 Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard Prize opens up
areas of research which, at first sight, seem well-removed from one another,
but turn out to be informed by unusual systems of liaisons. Thousands of
fireflies emit bioluminescent light at regular intervals. Thy flash in unison
at the same rhythm as the chirping of hundreds of crickets and metronomes. This
experiment in synchronicity...

A project devised by Stéphanie Moisdon, with the
participation of the Master’s course students and teachers. In the form of a
Bildingsroman (“education novel”) about
imagination, or about imagination of education, the exhibition is the venue for
a theatre and a choir, a set, and
appearances of forms, objects and characters. The evolving path of this
“education novel” has been...

Rosi Braidotti
opens her book The Posthuman with
this observation: “None of us can say, with any degree of certainty, that we
have always been humans, or that that is all we are.”1 Braidotti
re-appraises a Eurocentric and male humanism, currently out-of-date, and
suggests talking in terms of territories and de-territorializations, and about
desire as a construction rather than...

For the past ten years,
Marcelline Delbecq’s praxis has been slowly shifting from taking photos to
taking notes. In her work, the issue of the image is incarnated in an
essentially narrative form, a writing imbued with movements and freeze frames,
past and present, fiction and reality.
For the show Silence trompeur/Deceptive Silence, the
artist thwarts...

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